Liina-Ly Roos

Language(s): Swedish, Finnish, Estonian

Research/Language Interests: Nordic and Baltic film, television, literary and cultural studies with a specific focus on migration, race, ethnicity, sexual politics, postcolonial/decolonial studies, childhood studies and children’s literature, and critical theory.

About: Liina-Ly Roos received her PhD from the University of Washington, and she taught at the University of Minnesota before joining the GNS.  In her teaching and research, she specializes in twentieth to twenty-first century Nordic and Baltic culture. This includes various artistic and cultural negotiations of colonial and racial histories, as well as gender and sexual politics in the hybrid region that Northern Europe is. Liina-Ly’s current book project (forthcoming with The University of Washington Press, 2025), The Not-Quite Child: Rethinking Whiteness and Colonial Histories in Sweden through Images of Childhood examines twenty-first century cultural texts that incorporate a child figure who disrupts and rethinks the idealized and normative idea of Swedish childhood in order to rethink colonial histories and racial hierarchies in Sweden. She has published articles in Journal of Scandinavian Studies, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Journal of Baltic Studies, Methis: Studia humaniora estonica, and Baltic Screen Media Review.

Education:
• University of Washington, PhD in Scandinavian Studies (2018)
• University of Washington, MA in Scandinavian Studies (2014)
• Tallinn University, BA in Finnish (2011)

Website (includes CV and Publications): https://wisc.academia.edu/LiinaLyRoos